Apophyllite (ex Willard Wulff Collection)

Item Description

This specimen comes from the collection of Willard W. Wulff (1904-1998) of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a prominent figure and collector of Colorado minerals. Wulff was one of the founding members of the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society in 1936. You can read Willard's bio on the Mineralogical Record website here ( http://www.minrec.org/labels.asp?colid=1528 ). The piece comes with a typed label from Wulff on one of his famous 3x5 index cards which says the piece was acquired from V. D. Hill. Dozens of sharp, lustrous, white / colorless, pseudo-cubic crystals of Apophyllite measuring up to 5 mm cover the underlying matrix. The locality given was simply Benton County, Oregon, and we don't know if it's from Wren, Kings Valley or another locality, so we're simply leaving it as Benton County. Hard to find material on the market, and this particular piece dates back at least 50 years.